Applied AI & Automation Intern

SEPHORA; California; Remote; USD 34,000 - 49,000; Part time

Job summary

Sephora invites applications for the Applied AI & Automation Intern role, a 10-week program designed for early‑career professionals to work with AI engineers, data scientists, and business teams on real projects. The program emphasizes hands‑on learning, mentoring, and networking opportunities, with a focus on scalable AI solutions in beauty retail.

The internship runs June 14 to August 20, 2027, averaging 36 hours per week in Pacific Time.

Qualifications

• Pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in a quantitative field such as CS, ML, AI, Data Science, Engineering or Statistics.
• Strong programming skills in Python and SQL demonstrated in coursework or projects.
• Experience building and evaluating machine learning or deep learning models with practical outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Design, train, evaluate and iterate machine learning models for real-world business use cases.
• Build agentic AI solutions capable of reasoning, retrieval and multi‑step workflows.
• Develop proofs of concept using Python, SQL, ML frameworks and enterprise data.
• Create retrieval-augmented generation pipelines and tool-calling workflows.
• Perform data exploration, feature engineering and model validation.

Skills

Python

SQL

ML/DL models

LLMs

Vector databases

Tool calling

Agentic frameworks

Data exploration

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/Ph.D. in CS/ML/AI/DS/Engineering/Statistics

Tools

Python

SQL

Job description

Sephora invites applications for the Applied AI & Automation Intern role, a 10-week program designed for early‑career professionals to work with AI engineers, data scientists, and business teams on real projects. The program emphasizes hands‑on learning, mentoring, and networking opportunities, with a focus on scalable AI solutions in beauty retail.

The internship runs June 14 to August 20, 2027, averaging 36 hours per week in Pacific Time.